Title Dying for heaven : holy pleasure and suicide bombers--why the best qualities of religion are also its most dangerous / Ariel Glucklich.

Publication Info.	New York : HarperOne, [2009]
	©2009

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	BP190.5.T47 G57 2009	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	345 pages : music ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-328) and index.
Contents	Religious self-destructiveness and nuclear deterrence -- The mysteries of pleasure -- The varieties of religious pleasure -- The school for happiness -- Disgust and desire: why we sacrifice for the group -- God's love and the Prozac effect -- Spiritual love and the seeds of annihilation -- The paradise paradox: the misery of heaven-addicts -- The martyr's theater.
Summary	A scholar and advisor to the Pentagon explains the religious motivations of terrorists, and tells why suicide missions may be rational and pleasurable for them.
Subject	Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
	Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
	Suicide bombers -- Religious life.
	Suicide bombers.
	Religious life.
	Terrorists -- Religious life.
	Terrorists.
	Violence -- Religious aspects.
	Violence -- Religious aspects.
	Hedonism -- Religious aspects.
	Hedonism -- Religious aspects.
	Heaven.
	Heaven.
	Paradise.
	Paradise.
	Future life.
	Future life.
ISBN	9780061430817
	0061430811